1. Tibet's First Deposit and Accounting Integration Data Center Project to Run in February
According to a reporter on January 19, 2024, Huawei, in conjunction with Tibet Nin Computing Technology Group Co., Ltd. and Shanghai Hongyi Software Technology Co., Ltd. recently constructed the first storage-calculation integration data center in Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) in Lhasa City. The center aims to promote the sharing and circulation of data resources and the development and utilization of data resources through the creation of a data storage platform with rich data resources and strong support capabilities, and to help the development of Tibet's digital economy and society.
As a pioneer city in the development of Tibet's digital economy, Lhasa has unique location advantages. In addition, Lhasa also has the natural environmental advantages of low temperature, low pressure, low oxygen, low sulfur and low humidity, which is conducive to the operation of the data center and is a natural data harbor.
According to the introduction, the Tibet Storage and Computing Integrated Data Center constructed this time applies Huawei's full-stack integrated data center solution to the storage and power center part. The storage center is a "one-center, four-platform" model that includes an advanced storage center and computing power support platform, a government affairs number shield platform, an IoT perception platform, and an enterprise content management platform. The storage center can safely collect and preserve the massive data generated, and continuously provide high-quality data for the arithmetic center and data exchange. This is conducive to fully activating the value of data, releasing the potential of arithmetic power, and realizing the full life cycle management of data elements.
It is reported that the Tibet storage power integration data center under construction will start operation in February this year. A phase of the data center will be constructed with a capacity of 10PB, which will be subsequently expanded to 150PB capacity. It will focus on government data disaster recovery, graphic audio and video storage, medical image data storage, education digital resources storage and other scenarios to carry out services. (Source: Science and Technology Daily)
2.MIIT: China's total arithmetic power is the second largest in the world, and the number of artificial intelligence enterprises exceeds 4,400
January 19 (Xinhua), the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology spokesman Tao Qing said, China's cloud computing, big data and other technological innovation capacity is located in the world's first echelon, industrial robots, industrial software and other digital products and services continue to improve the ability, the number of artificial intelligence enterprises more than 4,400, steel, petrochemical, lithium batteries and other areas of system integration capabilities to reach the international advanced level, chassis integration die casting, core precision manufacturing, photovoltaic component flexible assembly solutions to make breakthroughs, the initial formation of the whole chain of digital technology and industrial system.
3. Vietnam's information and communication plan for 2050: IPv6 top 20 in the world, construction of multiple national data centers
On January 22, Vietnam's Deputy Prime Minister Tran Duy Quang signed the National Information and Communication Infrastructure Construction Plan to 2050, aiming to build Vietnam into a modern country with coordinated development of the real and digital worlds.
Among the specific goals are to convert Vietnam's Internet to IPv6 architecture by 2025 and rank among the top 20 globally. Vietnam plans to build and deploy 2-4 additional international communication cable systems to reach all high-tech parks, information technology clusters, and R&D and innovation centers in the country at a rate of 1Gb/s.
Meanwhile, Vietnam will also build and deploy several national data centers by 2025 to provide national database services and build at least three national multi-purpose data center clusters and several regional multi-purpose data center clusters.
All government agencies will be integrated into the digital government cloud computing ecosystem, and 70% of Vietnamese businesses will use cloud computing services provided by local enterprises.
4. Yiwu, a city widely known for its wholesale market, will also build a data center
April 25, 2023, Zhejiang China Commodity City Group Co., Ltd (referred to as "Commodity City") announced that it will cooperate with Zhejiang Unicom in the construction and operation of the "Belt and Road" international data center.
According to the introduction, the "Belt and Road" international data center project is planned according to the structure of "one network, three centers and two guarantees".
International data center project a planning cabinet 3000 racks, computing capacity of about 120,000 VCPU, smart computing capacity of about 50Pflops, the total Internet bandwidth of about 2T, build and North America, Europe, Southeast Asia, Arabia and other domestic and foreign mainstream cloud service providers, data centers, the international new Internet data dedicated channel. The project construction can be adjusted appropriately according to the actual situation.
According to the analysis of the available information, the international data center project located in Yiwu, mainly focus on the service of Yiwu international trade, cross-border international interconnection services as its characteristics. The company said that the construction of the international data center project will be accelerated, which is conducive to exploring the layout of the international new Internet data exchange hub. Eventually, the "Belt and Road" trade big data platform will be formed, combined with the artificial intelligence arithmetic platform, so as to promote the comprehensive layout of the Commodity Market in the field of intelligent commodity selection, flexible production and manufacturing, supply chain intelligent optimization, digital human live broadcasting and advertising, intelligent customer service and other cutting-edge areas.
5. NTT expands India footprint with new data center campus in Noida
NTT Ltd announces launch of new data center in Noida, UP. Noida 2 campus supportsplanned capacity of 52.8 MW critical IT load in two data centers. It is carrier neutraland interconnected with NTT's other data center locations for minimal latency.
The facility delivered by NTT has a capacity of 22.4MW and covers an area of 300,000 square feet (approximately 28,000 square meters). The facility also introduces India's first seismic damper design. With the opening of this facility, NTT's total data center capacity size in India reaches 265MW, with 18 data centers in the Delhi Capital Territory, Mumbai, Chennai and Bangalore.
According to data released by Colliers International last year, the size of India's data centers is likely to double to 23 million square feet in the next three years, with investment in the sector set to grow by 40 percent over the previous three years to $10 billion (about Rs. 71.9 billion). (Source: Hong Kong server room new Horizon Interconnection )
6.Google to invest $1 billion in UK data centre
On January 18, Google will invest $1 billion on building a data centre in Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire, UK. And said the data center "will help ensure reliable digital services for Google Cloud customers and Google users in the United Kingdom." According to Google's website, the data center will be Google's first in the U.K. The data center is located on a 33-acre site. Google has other European data centers in the Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, Belgium and Ireland, where it also has its European headquarters. (Source: Caixin)
